<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-nH gmail-bkK"><div class="gmail-nH"><div class="gmail-nH gmail-ar4 gmail-z"><div class="gmail-aeI"><div class="gmail-AO"><div id="gmail-:3" class="gmail-Tm gmail-aeJ gmail-cgjhk" style="height:646px"><div id="gmail-:1" class="gmail-aeF" style="min-height:456px"><div class="gmail-nH"><div class="gmail-nH" role="main"><div class="gmail-nH gmail-g gmail-id"><div class="gmail-nH gmail-a98 gmail-iY"><div class="gmail-nH"><div class="gmail-aHU gmail-hx"><div role="list"><div class="gmail-h7 gmail-ie" role="listitem" aria-expanded="true" tabindex="-1"><div class="gmail-Bk"><div class="gmail-G3 gmail-G2"><div><div id="gmail-avWBGd-424"><div id="gmail-avWBGd-425"><div class="gmail-adn gmail-ads"><div class="gmail-gs"><div class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" id="gmail-:2pv"><div class="gmail-a3s gmail-aiL" id="gmail-:2pu"><div id="gmail-avWBGd-441"><div dir="ltr">Colleagues,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>(Apologies for the mis-posting earlier.)</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On December 18, 2025, the UC Berkeley Cybersecurity team detected "vulnerabilities" in the STEDT database website at <a href="http://stedt.berkeley.edu" target="_blank">stedt.berkeley.edu</a>.<br><br>We
therefore had to take the search engine down. The "static pages",
including STEDT publications, documentation for the search engine, and
other reference materials, remain up for now.<br><br><div>Since then, we
have been working to address the shortcomings and bring the site up
again. There is no schedule for when this might happen, but ... "soon".</div><div><br></div><div>There are many considerations about how to do this, I'll rehearse them someday somewhere else.</div><br>In
the meantime, I have mounted the search engine on my own AWS EC2
instance (yes, plz google), and you can access an older version of the
site at:<br><br><div><a href="https://54.213.58.250/rootcanal.pl" target="_blank">https://54.213.58.250/rootcanal.pl</a></div><div><br></div><div>If
you are challenged about a "bad certificate" or other security problem
with this site, I advise you to ignore it and click through to the site.
If this happens to you, I would appreciate it if you'd let me know.</div><br>(Historical
aside: The STEDT project ended in 2014 and the team gradually disbanded
after that. David Mortensen wrote the first "web accessible" version,
called '<a href="http://tagger.pl" target="_blank">tagger.pl</a>',
the ancestor of all subsequent versions, using PERL and MySQL in 2011;
it in turn was based loosely on an earlier "desktop-only" version that I
wrote, Tagger, written several times in several computer languages,
notably FoxBase Pro for Mac. Since then the public interface was
intensively developed by the STEDT team into the interface we are
familiar with, still using PERL and MySQL; several other versions were
also developed but are no longer running. The software has been running
in one shape or another with almost no support for well over a decade!)<br><br>(The database version is from the fall of last year.)<br><br>Note that the code for the STEDT interface is in a somewhat messy GitHub repository:<br><br><a href="https://github.com/stedt-project/" target="_blank">https://github.com/stedt-project/</a><br><br>And the *original* STEDT database, from 2014, while still to be "officially" archived, is available at:<br><br><a href="http://projects.johnblowe.com/stedtdb_v1.0.tgz" target="_blank">http://projects.johnblowe.com/stedtdb_v1.0.tgz</a><br><br>Please do send me your questions, comments, suggestions, criticisms, corrections and especially encouragements to <a href="mailto:jblowe@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">jblowe@berkeley.edu</a>.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>JB Lowe<br><div><a href="http://www.johnblowe.com" target="_blank">www.johnblowe.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><div>PS: Sorry for the long email, </div><div><br></div><div>"Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le<br><span><span><span>loisir</span></span></span> de la faire plus courte!" -- <span><span>Pascal</span></span></div><div class="gmail-adL"><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail-adL">
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